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I love it. Especially for the DT10. It's like that rod was made for that bait. It also throws my Lucky Craft Flat CB DR's very well.

I'm going to call this fish my PB in my home state of PA, but I know that I have caught bigger fish at other times whenever I didn't have a scale on me. Regardless, this fish weighed in at 5lb. 15oz. She fell victim to one of my hand built spinnerbaits. I ended up catching 4 total fish that day. My biggest three went 5.93, 4.18, and 3.65.

Spinnerbaits are where you really see weights all over the place. Some companies sell a 3/8oz spinnerbait that weighs 3/8oz. Other places will sell a spinnerbait that's 3/8oz for just the lead/hook/wire. After you add in blades, skirt, swivel, beads, you might have 5/8 - 3/4oz spinnerbait. When I sell someone a spinnerbait that I build, I let them know that the bait itself weights XX, but all dressed out it weighs YY.

Do they say Cavitron on it? If not, it's not a nice looking buzzbait.

Those skirts look really full. How many strands are you using per?

I vary mine up, basically depending on how fancy I want to get with accent colors and such. I've played around and I used to build my skirts with 55-66 strands each, but I've had just as much success using 44-50 strands. I recently bought some Thunder Crickets and a few Lucky Craft spinnerbaits for the frames. After taking off the skirts to put my own on, I compared the factory skirts to some 44 and 50 strand skirts that I made and the factory skirts are significantly thinner than mine. I wouldn't be surpised if these Thunder Cricket skirts have 33 strands (or less).

Looks like opening day is today for trout. I've never seen it on any day other than a Saturday.

The fish commission has made multiple statements saying that trout opener will still take place. Including one just a few days ago.

Great video, Glen. The spinnerbait has been key for me around here this spring. We've gotten a ton of rain and our waters are really muddy. This is when a spinnerbait shines for me.

Thank you! Our waters are still in the mid 40's I'd guess, so still plenty of time before they do their thing, but all the females are fat and full of eggs right now.

First outing of the year in PA and I broke the 5 pound mark.

Its possible that your water turned over. Hence the floating debris in the water column. Give it two weeks and it will likely return to normal if that was the case.

In order to have a 5 second cast and retrieve, you would have to be making VERY short casts to even make that possible. I want to meet the person who sat there and timed him all day long and kept count of his casts.

Costs aside - there is no feeling that can be replicated like that of catching a fish on a bait/jig that you made entirely yourself.

They work just fine here in western PA.

These are still great for trolling for walleyes.

@J Francho

Tie on a 3/4oz Carolina barrel weight on and drag it on the bottom. Feel the transistions, counts the rocks, feel the weeds/wood as you come through them.

Slippery? Umm, no. I've never experience any line that was "slippery". I will say that the "Reel Snot" stuff is exactly as advertised, its like coating your entire reel in snot after you make a few casts. It makes the entire rod/reel very slick.

Or it's just not popular these days? In all honesty, it looks unrealistic and after a few fish, they look terrible. Thinking back through history, I can think of lots of historic baits that came in a ton of chrome colors: Bill Lewis Rat-L-Trap Manns Baby 1- Storm Wiggle Wart

At this time next week we'll be under way. Get your picks in now boys!

The things guys from Florida think nothing of...

I wish I was back in Florida right now.